Just a Gwai Lo awkward flow, to some it's even unorthodox [?]

From the contact form comes this, in response to my article on attraction to Asian women:

As an asian woman, I have to say that you are absolutely disgusting. I want to show every asian friend of mine your blog so that they know to stay the hell away from guys like you. You're like a predator, and no woman wants to attract a man based on her race. She will always wonder if you will leave her for the next sexy asian girl you see, because, obviously, you pay so much attention to that factor. If mystery is your excuse for this fucked up minset of yours, why not date African women? Or Latina's? They are all different from most Caucasians and hold a certain amount of intrigue, don't they? Also, I can only imagine how embarrassing your behavior is for your girlfriends. The first thing your friends must think when they meet her is 'another asian girl'. She is being judged before she gets a chance to show off her personality and assert her herself as an individual. I really hope guys like you drop dead. If what you say is true, that you only want to find a girl who shares your interests and laughs at your jokes, you better start opening your mind and dating other girls who are not asian, because otherwise you are the worst kind of racist - the hypocritical kind.

No return address on this one, so we'll bring this conversation out into the public. I can respond just fine, but instead I'll just point out that on multiple occasions she seems not to have even read what I wrote, since I made pains to avoid giving the impression she has of me.

A few minutes pass, and my lovely girlfriend, sitting next to me, responds at length.

Four years ago, for about a year, a Russian guy studying at Stanford found me on instant messaging about the article I wrote about attraction to Asian women. He was into Asian women, and, being at Stanford, was effectively swimming in a sea of 'em. One night, because he was bored at work, he created a fake personal ad claiming to be an Asian woman, to see what kind of responses he would get. He stopped counting at 50.

After looking at some search engine referals, it seems that white men are coming to my article trying to figure out why they like Asian women, or Asian women trying to figure out why their boyfriends are attracted to them. Clicking through, to see what kind of company I keep for phrases related to attraction to Asian, to see how bad it could be (I'm already keeping bad company on one search phrase; the image is of search results which are not safe for sex-hostile environments), I came across an Asian guy area who posted a personal ad on Craigslist pretending to be a twentysomething Asian woman in the San Francisco: “In all, we received 188 responses over a 24 hour period. Since the ad was posted to the San Francisco, California region, the pool of respondents was limited to that immediate area.” The site in question even has sample responses with, gulp, sample photos of respondents.

If that happened on a weekday, then the number sounds about right, and the graph, tending to be just before work ends or just after it, also looks about right. The guy runs a humour site, so the numbers may be inflated for comic effect, but it's only funny because it's true.

I just changed the Creative Commons license on on my article to Attribution as an experiment both in resentment and in accountability, since I have been up until now distancing myself from what I wrote. I made at least one friend because of it and made another despite it, so it's time to stand by it as an accurate reflection of how I felt at the time, which were the years 2000 and 2001.